algo1 - Software Engineer (Platform)

• Distributed systems experience. You've designed or meaningfully contributed to distributed backend systems, and understand event-driven patterns, asynchronous messaging, and the trade-offs at scale. • API design and evolution. You've designed APIs that other teams and clients depend on, and you understand the trade-offs between clean design, backwards compatibility, and speed. • API design and evolution. • Database and schema fluency. Practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar), including schema design, indexing, migrations, and query optimisation. Working knowledge of at least one non-relational store. • Database and schema fluency. • Real-time data. Experience processing or analysing real-time data streams at scale. • Real-time data. • Cloud infrastructure. Experience deploying and operating distributed services on AWS, GCP, or Azure. • Cloud infrastructure. • Shipping complex, customer-facing products at pace. Evidence that you can move real software into production quickly, making pragmatic decisions without letting perfection become a blocker. • Shipping complex, customer-facing products at pace. • Growth and ambition. A career that has moved fast, where you've taken on more scope sooner than the timeline would suggest. • Growth and ambition. • AI-native engineering. You've shipped production code with frontier AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) and push further into agentic workflows rather than push back on them. • AI-native engineering. • Polyglot engineer. Professional software engineering experience across the stack, with your strongest work in the platform, and a portfolio of production systems you've owned end-to-end. • Polyglot engineer. • B2B or enterprise product experience. Background building for business or enterprise customers, where reliability, integrations, and data pipelines matter as much as the interface. • Product mindset. You care about the people using what you build, and you take ownership for what your team puts in front of them, not just the part you wrote. • Product mindset. • Containers and orchestration. Docker and Kubernetes in production. • Containers and orchestration. • Retail or personalisation. Familiarity with retail technology, commerce platforms, or customer personalisation systems. • Retail or personalisation. • Startup experience. Background working at an early-stage startup. • How We Work • We're a startup, so this is a high-intensity environment. The people who thrive here are curious, proactive, and love building. If you're happiest when you're creating, experimenting, and moving fast, you'll love it here. • We draw our energy from being together, so this is an office-based role. It suits someone who enjoys the quick conversations and shared momentum that comes from building together. Our office is on what we think is the best garden square in London, just a couple of minutes from Tottenham Court Road, so it's easy to get to and a great place to build.